Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)
If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.
I'm pretty sure a rape victim wouldn't ever want to marry their attacker, so why is this ok?
(Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB)
If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.
It seems that the woman is a piece of property, and in some instances, a rape victim cannot cry out no matter where they are for fear of death or the rapist has threatened harm on the people they love that could hear their cries if they did cry out. Why was the victim murdered?
2006-10-19
22:10:40
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